Shortened the kernel install in chapter 5

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3 files changed, 16 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 9a97ecace..47cbc05b4 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,16 @@
 
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Kernel: Shortened
+the commands by removing <userinput>make mrproper</userinput>,
+<userinput>make config</userinput>, and <userinput>make dep</userinput>.
+Instead we just create the missing <filename>version.h</filename> and
+<filename class="symlink">asm</filename> symlink and copy the headers to
+<filename class="directory">$LFS/usr/include</filename>. We don't need the
+kernel tree itself setup until chapter 8 where we would re-run the removed
+commands anyways, so it's just a waste of time to do it in chapter
+5.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06+Appendix A: Removed
 the chroot dependencies. It's not a package so it's a bit out of
 place.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml b/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
index 497b454c0..b7e29a79f 100644
--- a/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
+++ b/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
@@ -1,27 +1,10 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Command explanations</title>
 
-<para><userinput>make mrproper:</userinput> This will ensure that the kernel
-tree is absolutely clean.  We do this because the kernel team recommend
-that this is done prior to <emphasis>each</emphasis> kernel compilation,
-and that we shouldn't rely on the source tree being automatically clean
-after untarring.</para>
-
-<para><userinput>yes "" | make config:</userinput> This runs make config and
-answers with the default answer to every question the config script asks 
-the user (it does this by simply doing the equivalent of hitting the
-Enter key, thus accepting the default Y and N answers to the questions). 
-We're not configuring the real kernel here, we just need to have some sort 
-of configure file created so that we can run make dep next that will 
-create a few header files in <filename>include/linux</filename>, like
-version.h, among others, that we will need to compile Glibc and other
-packages later in chroot.</para>
-
-<para><userinput>make dep:</userinput> make dep checks dependencies and sets
-up the dependencies file. We don't really care about the dependency
-checks, but what we do care about is that make dep creates those
-aforementioned files in <filename>include/linux</filename> we will be
-needing later on.</para>
+<para><userinput>make include/linux/version.h</userinput> and
+<userinput>make symlinks</userinput>: This creates the
+<filename>include/linux/version.h</filename> file and the <filename
+class="symlink">include/asm</filename> symlink.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>mkdir $LFS/usr/include/asm</userinput>
 and <userinput>cp include/asm/* $LFS/usr/include/asm</userinput>:
diff --git a/chapter05/kernel-inst.xml b/chapter05/kernel-inst.xml
index 9cd6d99d1..db6e0d042 100644
--- a/chapter05/kernel-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/kernel-inst.xml
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ compile the packages that need the kernel.</para>
 <para>The kernel configuration file is created by running the following 
 command:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>make mrproper &amp;&amp;
-yes "" | make config &amp;&amp;
-make dep &amp;&amp;
+<para><screen><userinput>make include/linux/version.h &amp;&amp;
+make symlinks &amp;&amp;
 mkdir $LFS/usr/include/asm &amp;&amp;
 cp include/asm/* $LFS/usr/include/asm &amp;&amp;
 cp -R include/linux $LFS/usr/include</userinput></screen></para>